Single worst professor I've had at UCLA. I changed technical breadths because of her. "Finance and Marketing" was a disorganized 10 weeks in which I took away nothing.

It's literally 12 days after the grade deadline and I have no grade. It has literally been almost a month since the final and we have no grades. Mel is a piping hot mess. She is actively horrible at her job. She is a bad teacher. She does not respond to questions. She does not respond to emails. SAVE YOURSELF!!! DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!!! IT SUCKS!!!

The lectures are pretty hard to pay attention to. They can be very meandering and hard to follow. The good news is that the discussions cover all the content you need to know and she is *super* helpful in office hours.
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The class itself isn't too bad, it's basically a ton of formulas and algebra problems. Had a sort of 8th grade vibe to it. The tests are fair. There's weekly current events that can get annoying but are easy and sometimes interesting.
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The biggest complaint I have with the grading is the opacity. I ended up with a B+ in the class, which slightly surprised me since I thought I did well on the final, so I emailed her asking if I could see what I missed on the final. She responded two weeks later, and she was very nice about it and agreed to set up a zoom call to talk to me - which I felt was very generous. I knew I was ambitious in what I was asking, so I was a little surprised that she accepted. Unfortunately, she never showed. I sat and waited on the zoom call for 30 min at the time she choose. I don't care if you don't respond to emails but if you make a commitment to talk to someone at a certain time you either a) let the other person know you're not coming or b) honor it. I felt it was disrespectful.

Mel is unbelievably lazy. We finally received our grades yesterday, more than a month after the final exam. Like the other reviews have said, she makes a lot of typos on the homeworks and exams, which are very annoying. If she actually took the time to respond to the Piazza posts, they would probably be less annoying.

Mel is so disorganized it's not even funny. It's Friday of week 2 of Summer Session A, and nobody in the class has a grade back yet. She even emailed us 10 days ago saying "letter grades will be posted in 48 hours", and 48 hours came and went and nobody got a grade. Every assignment, which consisted of just 5 homeworks, 1 final exam, and 1 final project, all were done in groups of 4 people (barring the exam), meaning that she had only a quarter of the amount of grading as other professors do, yet still we have no grades back. It's completely ridiculous at this point. On top of that, there was a Piazza forum for the course, but I honestly have no clue why she even went through the trouble of making the forum as she literally never goes on it, when she really should considering all of the typos that she has on the homeworks. Speaking of those typos, they're pretty bad. For example, on our final exam (which she didn't allow us to ask questions for the first hour so none of us would cheat, don't know how that works) she completely neglected to upload a table of numbers for a long question which involved performing calculations with those numbers. So you could imagine the distress of the entire class wondering "are we just supposed to say what we would do if we were given numbers?" Don't get me wrong, Mel seems like a very nice person, she just really shouldn't be teaching if she remains as disorganized as she is and has been according to the other reviews here. If you're reading this review and are considering taking this for your tech breadth, I really recommend waiting until another professor teaches this course or just taking MGMT courses as those seem to be way better (and organized).

The professor is so bad and disorganized you could write a sitcom about her and nobody would believe it. She did not follow the grade distribution she said she would in the syllabus so I and multiple others received grades lower than the ones we calculated following HER grade distribution. She never once answered a single email and never followed through on anything. Literally, emailing her was a meme in our groupme because she would never respond. Every concept is half taught and half explained so that questions all seem familiar but you were never really given the tools to actually solve anything. Grading is pretty harsh and there is never any feedback, we had a piazza but most questions went unanswered. I'm a cs major and would literally take another Eggert class over this, cause at least Eggert doesn't blatantly lie to you. Don't take this professor, this class had so much potential to be interesting but it was just awful.

Mel is not a great teacher and is a terrible communicator. Slow to grade, answer questions/emails, and cannot concisely convey material. Waste of a tech breadth unit - would not advise anyone to take this class again. Not worth the workload, especially as lectures are required for her annoying online polls.

Mel is a little disorganized like the other reviews say, but I feel that she is much better this summer quarter. Perhaps she's adapted more.

Lectures were pretty focused and homework is *mostly* straightforward. There are in class poll questions.

She taught the material fairly well and completely, and it is not hard to get an A if you listen in class (she covers all the material you need to know in her slides) and put in some work. 85% + was and A when I took it.

First off, don't expect lectures to be that helpful. Mel is super disorganized and not a great lecturer. Unfortunately, you still have to attend because she has online poll questions and only gives the passwords to do them in-class. Don't think about having a buddy text you the password because she might literally take attendance to ensure no one does that.

THAT BEING SAID... Mel is a VERY NICE professor. I went to her office hours after the midterm and raised some questions about problems that I'd gotten wrong. Mel was nice enough to give me 6 EXTRA POINTS (which saved my grade from a B+ to an A-) just because she felt that I'd been graded too harshly. That really tells you about someone's character. Mel is an amazing and friendly professor!

PRACTICAL TIPS: Focus on discussion sections, homework problems, and practice exams. Those are the things that'll help you do good on the midterm/final. There's a group project but it's pretty easy — don't stress too much about it. Overall, this course is relatively easy-to-moderate difficulty. If you need a small GPA boost, this will do the trick!

The class is terribly unorganized. The lectures are useless, but the material can be learned quite well by the textbook. Most importantly, there is 0 communication with the professor as she never responds to emails. The midterm wasn't terribly difficult, but it felt like she often gives some conflicting information about the material. In lecture half the class would fall asleep as well.